Hide & Go Chic is almost the last nail polish that I can show you from the Hide & Go Chic Collection. This is a creme nail polish in bright blue that is slightly teal. One coat is enough for opacity but I am wearing two coats. The formula is smooth and the polish dries quickly. Only the durability was bad: Chipping after one day.

The color is pretty but I prefer a true blue not a teal blue. Essie often mixes blue with green though.

After Truth Or Flare and Fashion Playground I will show you Style Hunter from the Hide & Go Chic Collection. This is my first red nail polish from Essie. Well, I own two coral red polishes but not a real red one. For me Essie stands rather for delicate nudes or greyish colors.

Style Hunter is the perfect mix of pink and red. It's not a bright red but a rather cool red. Even though I love red nail polish I have to admit that I do not own a polish with the same kind of red. The formula was - other than with Fashion Playground - great, yes almost perfect! The polish applied like butter and dried quick, too. Besides this nail polish needs only one coat for opacity.

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

I showed you a very special brown nail polish in round 1. So today I am going to show you a brown nail polish that I owned for a while but haven't shown yet on my blog.

Lady Godiva from Essie is a chocolate brown jelly polish. As you can see it looks almost red on the sides of the nails where I applied the polish thinner. The first coat is uneven but the second coat evened everything out. After one day I had the first chipping but otherwise there is nothing else to tell.

While wearing this polish I realized how seldom I wear dark nail polish. But I like this dark brown a lot!

Fashion Playground is one of the favorites from Essie's Hide & Go Chic Collection. It's a perfect color for spring! A light mint green with delicate shimmer. The shimmer is not as strongly visible on the nails as it is in the bottle but I could capture it in some pictures. But I expect a rather expensive brand like Essie to produce polishes that can show shimmer on the nails when even polishes from the drug store can show shimmer on the nails just as much as in the bottle.

The formula didn't make me happy though.The polish is thick and streaky. It does even out while drying but I still needed three coats to get it even. Drying time is rather short though.

All in all this is a really nice color for spring. But the formula reminded me why I usually hesitate to buy Essie polishes. I want a more reliable formula for that price.

Fresh nail polish, fresh nail polish! Today I am showing you Truth Or Flare from Essie's Hide & Go Chic Collection that is not yet available in Germany.

Truth Or Flare is a light blue jelly nail polish with a strong green touch and the Essie-typical hint of grey. This polish is opaque in two coats although it is a jelly polish. The polish has a wonderful shine to it. I prefer the US version of the Essie brush. So application was easy for me.

Especially in the shadow Truth Or Flare reminded me a lot of Essie Vested Interest.

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

Rose is one of my absolute nail polish color favorites. I had a lot of rose polishes to chose from. Finally I chose a simple but stunning polish from OPI: Pink-ing Of You from the Pink Of Hearts Duo in 2013.

Pink-ing Of You is a delicate rose that has a bright shine to it and looks almost neon pink in some lightning. I love this color! It is delicate and eye-catching at the same time. At work I received a few compliments for it and even my husband liked it (even though he usually prefers red and bright blue). This is not a barbie pink at all.

Drying was a little tough but durabilty is great. After two days, house working and working in the office (tiping on the keyboard) it looks like new without chipping and minimal tip wear.

Pirouette is the second one from Picture Polish' Bijou Holos that I got for myself. It's a nice dusky pink with shimmer in gold and lilac. The formula is smooth and perfect as always. I am wearing two coats but one coat would be enough.

Only the durability wasn't that good. After one day I had tip wear and after two days I had a lot of chipping.

Are you in love with spring, too? I am enjoying lots of sun, sprouting buds and spring feelings!

My nails had to match my feelings. The base color is Essie Hot Coco. And this time this polish really looks like liquid coco on me! I had to try painting roses on my nails and used Essie Cute As A Button, Essie Boom Boom Room and Essie Vested Interest for it. I am very pleased with my first attempt at painting on my nails. It was so much fun to paint!

Today I am again taking part in the German campaign "Lacke in Farbe ... und
bunt!" round 2 (in English: "Polishes in color ... and colored!" from Das Jahreszeitenhaus and Lenas Sofa. You can get informations in German here.

This week I chose Zoya Storm from the Ornate Collection that was realeased in winter 2012/13. Storm is a jelly black nail polish with holographic glass flecks. Two coats are opaque but maybe I should have painted a third coat for more depth.

Everything about Storm is great - the glass flecks, the formula, the durability. This is one of the few black polishes that I really like.

Nail care. How important is that for you? For me it is essential. My nails are polished and the polish gets removed (what is more damaging than polishing them) all the thime and need some extra care. I found the perfect cuticle cream for me: Lush Lemony Flutter.

First I hesitated to buy Lemony Flutter because the price seems rather high (EUR 10,45/50 ml). Doch andere Produkte sind weitaus teurer (e.g. Burt's Bees Cuticle Cream: EUR 7,95/15 g). Besides a little goes a long way with Lemony Flutter. I have been using this little jar for four months now and it is still almost full! And I have been using this cream 1 or 2 times a day to nurture my cuticles.

Lemony Flutter is a paste-like cream that melts on your warm skin. The smell is strong lemony and reminds me of sherbet for children. But it is not overpowering in my opinion; I love it. The cream is very nurturing. Since I started using it I never had any problems with my cuticles or the skin around my nails again no matter how cold it was. The cream is made of many natural ingredients.